Rick and Virginia LaChance began with an 1807 Missouri house, to which they keep adding buildings about to be demolished. Old buildings and old ways of life renew their own lives.

Dining Room

Dining Room

A table surface that once held sundry things in an old dry goods store is now a dining table. To make it fit the room, the LaChances cut it down from 15 feet to 12, but used the leftover wood as bracing. "This is the kind of people we are," says Virginia, "unable to waste anything that's old."